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9/11 Health Talks Report Progress

A settlement is likely in "a matter of months" for people who blame their illnesses on work in buildings near Ground Zero after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a court-appointed monitor said Thursday.

"We are having very fruitful meetings," James A. Henderson Jr. told U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who appointed him as a special master in the case, at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan. "It's going to take some time but...I see a settlement coming out of this that the defendants and plaintiffs...